Elstree Calling (1930, Adrian Brunel)

Description

This early British sound musical revue (similar to the American Show of Shows) includes a brief sequence in which Donald Calthrop does magic tricks while reciting from Shakespeare's works. Tommy Handley also appears in a travesty of Taming of the Shrew with Anna May Wong as Kate Minola throwing furniture at him. Finally Gordon Begg enters as William Shakespeare himself